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An armed populace must be subdued with even greater arms. During the Crack Years, the period in the late 1980s when crack was entering urban America and drug turf wars escalated, mayors in major cities decried the fact that their officers were “outgunned.” American society has witnessed a kind of arms race between its citizens and its police, resulting in forces that in many places patrol and occupy rather than police, that straightforwardly view themselves as waging war.
A Colony in a Nation
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